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Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and in an abundance of caution, all Schar School events are postponed until April 10. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to welcome you to campus soon.
READ MORESchar School Postpones All Events Through April 10
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the Schar School is postponing all public events through April 10.
Putting Her Stamp on a Postal Service Biodefense Innovation
The global COVID-19 crisis will require scientists and scholars who are educated and trained to take on the world’s most dangerous problems. The Biodefense program at the Schar School creates leaders in the field. Look for their stories on this page in coming days.
Biodefense PhD Alumnus Craig Wiener: A ‘Groundbreaking’ Dissertation
The global COVID-19 crisis will require scientists and scholars who are educated and trained to take on the world’s most dangerous problems. The Biodefense program at the Schar School creates leaders in the field. Look for their stories on this page in coming days.
Book Talk: An Illuminating History—and an Alarming Foretelling—of Technology
The Biodefense program at the Schar School has long been described as merging the policy side of the field with the technical. There could be no better example of that description in practice than the career of national security expert Daniel M. Gerstein.
Master’s in Public Administration Degree and a Key Mentor Led to Leadership of ‘Congress’ HR Department’
The scope of John Salamone’s job as the Chief of Human Resources for the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) at the U.S. House of Representatives is as vast as it is vital: 700 people support 12,000 staffers on Capitol Hill and elsewhere around the country, including the 435 elected representatives themselves.
Germs on a Plane: Award-Winning PhD Grad Develops a Way to Monitor Disease Spread by Aircraft
Nereyda Sevilla believes she has a way to change how authorities and the public respond to disease outbreaks, such as the coronavirus crisis, and especially those perceived to be transmitted by air travel.
Schar School Students Turn D.R.E.A.M. into Action with Two Events in March
A new student organization originating at the Schar School aims to enable—or at least give a platform to—individuals’ passions and ideas. D.R.E.A.M. is Defending, Restoring, Educating, and Advocating Movement in the community.
Schar School MPP Student Hopes to Create Change and Justice with Her One-Woman Show
“My existence is proof that I am a product of my mother’s sacrifice,” said Asha Wasuge.
Drawn to Germs at an Early Age, Biodefense Scholar Studies Where Science Meets Policy
The global COVID-19 crisis will require scientists and scholars who are educated and trained to take on the world’s most dangerous problems. The Biodefense program at the Schar School creates leaders in the field. Look for their stories on this page in coming days.
Collecting Our Thoughts: Selected Insights from Recent Schar School Op-Eds (February 2020)
The loosely regulated market for synthetic DNA, the normalization of synthetic orthopoxvirus research, and a large number of capable facilities and researchers creates an environment in which a rogue state, unscrupulous company, reckless scientist, or terrorist group could potentially reintroduce one of the worst microbial scourges in human hist...
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